Maybe I'm a sensitive fool, but I've always had a hard time moving out of a place I call home. That's why I'm going to follow these instructions to leave a "time capsule" note behind light switches from now on. »12/04/10 6:00pm 12/04/10 6:00pm

The hardware in Mac Funamizu's gesture-controlled light switch would be very, very simple—after all, it's just a trackpad. But it's the input methods that make this exciting: just as laptop trackpads can track gestures for scrolling, this light switch would parse them to control up a roomful of lights, either together…
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can't wait for the movie »11/12/08 9:45am 11/12/08 9:45am. You have the t-shirts, the tricorder replica, the klingon doctorate, your , your face has morphed already into a sexy Vulcanian, and you have been writing your first Star Trek novel for years now. But do you these plates for your electrical wall thingies? Yeah. That's what I thought. Go…

Just a design from Ross McBride, this silicone switch design simplifies the light switch concept for people who don't quite grok the "up equals on, down equals off" concept. In this case, one silicone bump means, er, on? And two silicone bumps mean, obviously, off. We think. In any case, you can smash the light with… »9/15/06 3:10pm 9/15/06 3:10pm

Other than gimmicks like The Clapper, we've always had to turn on and off our lights by touching stuff. No longer, my friends, as Ryan from Gogglemarks has made a switch powered by a capacitive sensor. To switch on and off the lights, just make any sudden moves in a close proximity to the sensor. Wicked. – Jason Chen»6/02/06 8:35pm 6/02/06 8:35pm